Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The vaporization of liquid, such as rocket fuel.
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- noun The
vaporization of aliquid (orsolid ) whoseboiling point is lower that that of the environment in which it is stored.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would terminate aeronautics research and throw everything at this problem, which is fundamentally a ground based cryogenic insulation, and an in fligh boiloff recirculation problem, besides the usual crogenic production research.
Do You Want a Space Shuttle For Your Museum? - NASA Watch 2008
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 The time it took to correct the problem resulted in significant LOX boiloff and loss of helium, and it was the latter that caused the launch abort.
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Gelling the hydrogen cargo will also reduce boiloff further as much as 40 percent by suppressing convection within the tank.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Heavily insulating the hydrogen tanks with multilayer insulation can reduce in-space boiloff of liquid hydrogen to less than 1 percent per month during the six-to-eight-month interplanetary transit without any requirement for active refrigeration.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Gelling the hydrogen cargo will also reduce boiloff further as much as 40 percent by suppressing convection within the tank.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Heavily insulating the hydrogen tanks with multilayer insulation can reduce in-space boiloff of liquid hydrogen to less than 1 percent per month during the six-to-eight-month interplanetary transit without any requirement for active refrigeration.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Again the dual HLV - one manned, one unmanned - architecture is utilized, with the second launch of the EDS launching after the crew, to minimize boiloff effects on this large cyro stage.
NASASpaceFlight.com 2010
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